"Barry B. Longyear - Murder in Parliment Street" - читать интересную книгу автора (Longyear Barry)

тАЬAround five this evening, then.тАЭ I transmitted my data. тАЬDoes this
match your DNA?тАЭ

A pause. тАЬItтАЩs a match,тАЭ answered Shad. тАЬWhat do you have?тАЭ

тАЬBlood, a feather, and some additional material. It appears that the
deceased was propelled against the southwest wall from belowтАФperhaps
someone throwing the body up against the wall. It bounced, the trajectory
arced up and the body landed next to the opposite wall. Evidence would
indicate that the vic was already dead.тАЭ

тАЬKids playing handball with a dead bird?тАЭ

тАЬOnly one wall impact. Do you have the area surveillance camera
locations yet?тАЭ

тАЬWorking.тАЭ

тАЬID?тАЭ

тАЬNo name yet, Jaggs, but Bio Registry says this is one of a super
flock of eight thousand basically identical pigeons purchased from London
Industrial Biotronics four years ago by a private security firm headquartered
in Slough called Pureledge, Ltd.тАЭ

I descended toward Shad and the corpse. тАЬAre you telling me that
bird is a private dick?тАЭ

тАЬRent-a-cop. Pureledge hires out to keep real pigeons off of
buildings, monuments, and out of the ground transit stations. Remember
the old movie, To Catch a Thief?тАЭ

тАЬCertainly. Hitchcock film. Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.тАЭ I fought
manfully for the date, but had to relent. тАЬReleased in the 1960s, yes?тАЭ

тАЬFifty-five,тАЭ corrected Shad. We were both old film buffs, but ShadтАЩs
knowledge of films was encyclopedic, as befits a dedicated thespian.

тАЬSet a pigeon to catch a pigeon.тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩm going through PureledgeтАЩs site right now. Pureledge has an
office here in Exeter on Castle Street. It runs three wings of three hundred
and twenty birds per wingтАФтАЭ Shad paused for a moment. тАЬLedge marshals
is what theyтАЩre called.тАЭ

тАЬShad, did you get any fiber trace off the body?тАЭ

тАЬRed fiber. Only one thread visible, the rest microscopic. All of the
fibers are centered on the same impact point that broke all these bones.